Summary: -------- Vesafb doesn't work after kexec : nothing new is displayed on console, the previous shutdown messages remain on screen. However X can start normally. note: IRQ 11 (used by the video card) is disabled after kexec (see logs below). Opened bugme@osdl http://bugme.osdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4624 # diff dmesg-before-kexec dmesg-after-kexec 3c3 < BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable) --- > BIOS-e820: 0000000000000100 - 000000000009fc00 (usable) 5d4 < BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved) 28c27 < Kernel command line: root=LABEL=root resume=/dev/hdb6 vga=791 init 1 --- > Kernel command line: root=LABEL=root resume=/dev/hdb6 vga=791 init 1 30c29 < Detected 1410.244 MHz processor. --- > Detected 1410.555 MHz processor. 35c34 < Memory: 256204k/262064k available (1451k kernel code, 5204k reserved, 773k data, 148k init, 0k highmem) --- > Memory: 256332k/262064k available (1451k kernel code, 5200k reserved, 773k data, 148k init, 0k highmem) 37c36 < Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 2822.17 BogoMIPS (lpj=1411087) --- > Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 2822.14 BogoMIPS (lpj=1411074) 52,53c51,52 < ACPI: setting ELCR to 0200 (from 0c20) < evxfevnt-0096 [03] acpi_enable : Transition to ACPI mode successful --- > ACPI: setting ELCR to 0200 (from 0620) > evxfevnt-0084 [03] acpi_enable : System is already in ACPI mode 71c70 < ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 *11 12 14 15) --- > ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 11 12 14 15) *0, disabled. 88,94d86 < vesafb: framebuffer at 0xd8000000, mapped to 0xd0880000, using 3072k, total 65536k < vesafb: mode is 1024x768x16, linelength=2048, pages=0 < vesafb: protected mode interface info at c000:0eb9 < vesafb: scrolling: redraw < vesafb: Truecolor: size=0:5:6:5, shift=0:11:5:0 < Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 128x48 < fb0: VESA VGA frame buffer device 147c139,140 < BIOS EDD facility v0.16 2004-Jun-25, 2 devices found --- > BIOS EDD facility v0.16 2004-Jun-25, 0 devices found > EDD information not available.